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Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.